Funerals are usually a solemn occasion, a time to honor and say goodbye to a loved one. But not when the wacky, bumbling embalmers at South Philadelphia's Francis Funeral Home are in charge.

Family members of Kenneth Roberts, who died at age 80, gathered for a private viewing before the funeral on Monday when they noticed that the man in the casket was not Kenneth Roberts.

"They kept trying to tell us that it was him, and I knew it wasn't him," Roberts' widow Janin Holsey said.

Meanwhile, across town, at another funeral run by the Francis Funeral Home, two sisters paying last respects to their father, Charles, realized that the man in the casket wasn't dear old dad. It was Kenneth Roberts.

Back at the Roberts funeral, the parlor finally acknowledged the mistake, wheeled out the stranger's corpse and brought in the body of Kenneth Roberts an hour later. But things got worse when the body was revealed, lying face down and partially hanging out of the casket.

Family members were outraged and the funeral was canceled, but on the plus side, scriptwriters finally have a plot for the next "Weekend at Bernie's" movie.